[mythtv-users] SchedulesDirect Changes

[Larry Kennedy]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

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> On 2014-10-05 11:44, Larry Kennedy wrote:
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>  On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
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>> On 10/4/2014 5:38 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
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>>>> But Larry, if you are not interested in compiling, maybe you ought to
>>>> rethink your choice of CentOS for MythTV also.  I.e. apply the right
>>>> tool to the job at hand.
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>>>> I'd have to agree with this.  I just don't see something like MythTV
>>> as the target audience for something like CentOS.
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>>> Now, if you were going to run CentOS as a host and then run something
>>> like a MythTV appliance distro in a container underneath it, then I'd
>>> be saying that you're more in the target audience for CentOS.  Then
>>> again, if hosting diverse containers is your goal, then something like
>>> CoreOS could be better still.  CentOS is a bit more about stability
>>> and supportability than having a rich package database, especially for
>>> things like multimedia.
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>>> What exactly do you two mean by this? MythTV is the target or CentOS is
>> the target? Of what?
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>> I happen to host MythTV on CentOS. Finding the right repo for packages
>> has been a problem. It was ATrpms. And now that some of the users have
>> stepped up it still is.
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>> Why does it sound like the stability of Red Hat/CentOS is a *bad* thing
>> for you? It sounds like you want to target the ever shifting sands of
>> something like Fedora. A distro that demands updating once or twice a year.
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> This is exactly why I switched from Fedora to CentOS.  I was growing tired
> of the constantly evolving baseline that required me to keep up or get left
> behind.   I wanted something more stable.
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> What version of CentOS are you on? What source are you using for RPMs or
> are you compiling?
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I am on EL6 running Myth 0.26.1 rpms from ATrpms. AFAIK, there is no
upgrade path to 0.27 on EL6 (unless you want to compile from source and
figure out the Qt dependencies)
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> My 24.3 mythbackend is currently on a CentOS 5 host. I have a nice well
> built CentOS 6 host sitting next to it that I plan on first migrating to
> and then upgrading. There is an ATrpms user that has provided some updated
> MythTV packages. Can't remember if they are 26 or 27.
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